Coping With Stress at Work
Coping with stress at workstressCoping With Stress at WorkEveryone who has ever held a job has, at some point, felt the pressure of work-related stress. Any job can have stressful elements, even if you love what you do. In the short-term, you may experience pressure to meet a deadline or to fulfill a challenging obligation.…
Advance Your Career & Enhance Brand with Social Media
These days, it seems, everyone is using #socialmedia. And there’s a good reason why: Using social #media correctly can go a long way toward advancing the #careers of association professionals. OPPORTUNITIES Social media is just as “strategic” as it is “social.” For instance, social media makes it easier for you to: Network with Colleagues: It’s…
Building Relationships With Recruiters
When searching for a new #job, relationships are the most important piece of the puzzle. How you manage your interactions with #people has a direct impact on the value of the relationship. This logic holds true for working with recruiters, too. When engaging #recruiters in your job search, realize there are many nuances to a…
How employers and employees should manage self-quarantines
As cases of COVID-19 continue to rise across the country, many employers are making decisions around when to ask employees to quarantine themselves for their own protection and that of others. But employers who are making these policies may not be considering the psychological impact a quarantine could have on employees. Instead, employers should consider…
Feeling isolated and disconnected when returning to work after an extended period of time off?
You wake up and as you stare at your ceiling your mind automatically begins to flood with negative thoughts that remind you that you’ve have been off work for nearly three months. You’re not telling anyone, but inside you’re not sure if you’re feeling much better. However, you have agreed to try to return to…
Did you know that today is Purple Day? Did you know that #PurpleDay is World #Epilepsy Day?
The concept of Purple Day was initiated by a 9-year-old named Cassidy Megan, and was motivated by her own struggle with epilepsy. The Epilepsy Association of Nova Scotia helped to develop Cassidy’s idea, and the first Purple Day event was held on March 26, 2008, and is now known as the Purple Day for Epilepsy campaign. Why…
Consumer insolvencies on the rise, raising concerns about financial well-being of Canadian households
Consumer insolvencies rose by 9.5 per cent in 2019 to the second-highest total on record, raising concerns about the financial well-being of Canadian households and their ability to manage burdensome debt loads. Just more than 137,000 consumer insolvencies were filed in 2019, an increase of nearly 12,000 from a year earlier and the largest total…
Do I run for it? The split-second decision every commuter must make
There’s nothing more frightening and paradoxically life-affirming to any commuter – but especially a Vancouver SeaBus passenger – than noting the time to the next departure. You know that, with a hurried pace, anything over the minute mark on the countdown clock means you will be able to slide onto the ferry just before they…
In the 2020s, our climate-change bill will come due
In one sense, what’s going to happen to the planet in the 2020s should come as no real shock: Scientists have been warning us in great detail about what to expect, and their warnings have mostly come true. But since most people seem not to have believed them, it will probably be a surprise to…